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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON FRIDAY. OCTOBEH 28. 196. Cave Junction May Get Federal Funds Cave Junction The citv council of Cave Junction has initiated a move to get federal aid to finance installation of a city sewer system. At a recent special meeting, the council took necessary steps to begin proceedings de signed to get a federal grant under the accelerated public works program. The program would author ize a federal grant of up tu 50 per cent of the cost of in stalling a sewer system. The balance would have to be met by the city. Construction will have to be started by June. J9fl order to fulfill part of the fed eral grant requirements, coua cilmen noted. The council agreed that a sewer system is greatly need ed in Cave Junction. Members also felt that construction at a sewer system would help relieve the local unemploy ment situation. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Red Cross Service Available in Area For Storm Victims k 3 OPEN TONIGHT! Rachel Carson, in her new book "Silent Spring," offers the grim suggestion that in our copious use of chemical sprays to get rid of the insect and weed pests that annoy us we are setting up a vicious circle that in the end may do us in. Being an Easterner, she uses as an example the Dutch elm disease that before a spray was found that would check it destroyed so many of the lovely elm trees in New England. She says: "We spray to kill the beetle that spreads the Dutch elm disease, and the poison lingers to get into the earthworms in the ground. Then the robins eat the earthworms and the poison, if it does not kill the birds outright, ends by mak ing them sterile." find a final lodging in the fat ty tissues of men and wom enand the result that looms in the distance is a new men ace to man himself. The mere thought of it gives one the shivers. 4HCIAUITI IN HOMIWABfS; 245 S. Central at 10th HENCE the SILENT spring. There are no birds to make it vocal with their chat ter and their song. We run the risk, she apparently thinks, of getting into the fix of the town of Killingsworth, de scribed by Longfellow in his Talcs of a Wayside Inn. The Killingsworth villagers killed off the birds because they were eating the crops. But they couldn't stand the silence of a world without birds, so they went out to neighboring villages and bought more birds to replace those they had slaughtered. And so the next sum mer "A new heaven bent over a new earth "Amid the sunny farms of Killingsworth." TUT- Miss Carson goes on It's worse in these modern days. These "noxious chemi cals" that we use to get rid of the pests become more and more concentrated as they pass through vegetable food stuffs and animal flesh to ELECT CHARLES CHARY DEMOCRAT STATE REPRESENTATIVE ABLE EXPERIENCED CAPABLE Pd. Pol. Adv., Crary for St. Rep, Comm., Jerry Scanncll, Chmn., 310 Holly, Ashland, Oregon WHAT to do about it? Must we go back to the days, before these modern chemical sprays were invent ed, when our ancestors sim ply grinned and bore it? When they put up with the flies that they couldn't shoo out and KEEP OUT with screens? Must we let the chinch bugs eat up our corn and the boll weevils destroy our cotton? Must we stand by white the potato bugs polish off our potatoes? M More than 53,000 homes were affected by the recent Pacific coastal storms which caused widespread damage in parts of Oregon, Washington and California. Announcing the survey fig- Log Production In Slate Reaches ts Lowest Point ures, Eldon Bust, nirector of American Tcd Cross recovery operation, said the tallies in dicate that "the Red Cross job is just beginning." "Although insurance cover age is proving to be substan tial in much of the storm area," Bush said, "many fam ilies still will need Red Cross help in building back to pre- ISS Carson who, as read- "The Sea Around Us" will re call, is a competent biologist has some alternative solu tions. She points out that in Cali fornia the harmful Klamath weed stubbornly resisted all attempts to control it by spraying. Biological control, she says, was established by importing two species of bee tles from France. These beetles feed only on the Kla math weed and reproduce on ly upon it. She adds: "As a result o establishment of a BALANCE between the imported beetles and the Klamath weed, the range lands of California have been practically purged of a plant that had been par ticularly ruinous to the live stock population." SHE cites the Japanese bee tle infestation in the northeastern part of the U.S. It was finally brought under control, she says, not by appli cation of sprays but by the importation of a parasitic wasp from Korea and China. This wasp lays its eggs on Ja panese beetle grubs in the soil. Hatching on the beetle grubs, the young wasps feed on them and destroy them. WHETHER Miss Carson Is right or wrong is over the heads of us unscientific householders and back yard gardeners, but she certainly strikes a responsive chord in our memories when she says: "Many of the sprays in com mon use kill off the weaker insects a n d the survivors BREED A HARDIER STRAIN which is IMMUNE to future spraying." A lot of us stand ready to testify that the longer and the harder we spray to keep the old bugs under control this year, the longer and the hard er we'll have to spray next year to keep down the newer and tougher bugs that come along. Portland Despite increased cutting on public forest lands, Oregon's 1961 log production sagged to its lowest point since 1949, according to a for est survey report released by the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment sta tion. Portland. The drop in total log pro duction was caused almost en tirely by the reduced cut on private lands, it was noted. Private cut dropped more than one billion board feet be low the 1960 level to its low est point in 20 years. The 1961 cut of 7.4 billion board feet was one billion board feet less than in 1960 and I'i billion feet less than n 1959, the most recent peak year. The survey reports that the only other reduction from the 1960 cut was 35 million board feet less on Indian lands. National forest production rose 129 million Board icei over the 1960 cut to a level second only to the all lime national forest high of 19o. The national forests' propor tion of the total production last year was 33 per cent, the highest ever, compared to 27.6 per cent In 1960. Pro duction increased 3.7 per cent on bureau ol land manage ment lands and 4.1 per cent on state lands, compared with 1960. These increases totaled 39 million board feet. In Jackson county, 424,- 726.000 board feet were har vested during the year and 140.491.000 board feet in Josephine county. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Robert Gibson Briscoe. 44. f Rod Blanket r!.. Prospect, driving under the influence of intoxicat ing liquor, $:i.iO and driver's li cense suspended for one year, fere Kretschcr, overload. $50 Darrell 1. Johnson, overload, $'24. .lohn Wayne Van Dulah, viola tion of basic rule, S!0. Cecil R. Wclburn, disobeyed itop fiRn. $13. Hohert William Shelton, viola tion of basic rule. Mitchell Allen Biles. Illegal pos session nf Rjinir bird, $15. CIKCl'IT COl'RT Phyllis J. Irwin vs. Eugene A. Irwin, divorce complaint. Agnes Mnrv Merriman vi. Her bert Neil Merriman, divorce decree. Virgil WrtriRe vs. June C. Wrtdcr, divorce decree. ,MARHlA(;i; LICENSE APPLICATION Ross Giles, Sonoma. Calif., and Ollie Jean Boutwcll Stanton. Wil lows, Calif. Maurice T.nT "Mclnlyre. 20tt Eicbth st.. Jacksonville, and Oetka LaRene Sheperd, 909 Sunset ave Med ford. City Parking Meter Heads Are Taken Three city-owned parking meter heads, which vandals removed from their posts sometime yesterday, were found in the Jacksonville area last night, according to Mt-d- ford city police. The meters, valued about S57 each, were taken from parking spaces on Bear creek bridge and South Riverside ave., officers said. Police estimate each meter contained approximately $3 when removed. Jacksonville Chief of Police Frank Carter now has the meters and will return them to Medford today. disaster living." Jackson county residents affected by the disaster who arc unable through their own efforts to meet their disaster caused needs will find the Red Cross available to help them, local Red Cross officials said. Disaster rehabilitation may include clothing, furni ture, and other household goods, building and repair of homes, long-time medical and nursing care, farm supplies and equipment, and occupa tional training. Basis for Assist anc Disaster-caused need rather than loss is the basis for de termining the assistance that will be given. A person who lost heavily in the disaster but who is able to stand the loss financially without un reasonable hardship should; not ask for assistance. j Relief funds have been con-! tributcd by She American pen- pic, not to take the nlace ot insurance and replace losses, but to provide minimum needs that sufferers themselves can not meet through their own Subscribers To report improper or Tion dmverv of the Mail Tribune r. Med lord, phone 772-6141; Ash land call at 2'1 Iowa St., or phone 482-3602. MonUtga and Vreka. phone GLobe 9-3171. be fore '43 p.m. daily and 10:30 a,m Sunday. U TtgtsJsr deliver? arrives ahort'y after you call please notify office, thus eliminating spectal jnessenger service. Woman Cited After Accident in City Siedford police Thursday cited Elizabeth Frances Reed, 62, of 453 Haven St., for dis obeying a traffic signal after the car she was operating was involved in an accident at Riverside ave. and Main st. Driver of the olher vehicle was Donna Mae Jean Cook, 27, of 2725 Elliott ave. The mishap occurred about 5 49 p.m. City police are investigat ing an accident that occurred about 9:19 p.m. Wednesday. A car registered io J.W. and Estelle V. Smith, 3B37 Old Stage rd., was damaged while it was parked on Riverside ave. between Maple and Aus tin sts , police said. resources of cash, credit, in surance and earnings, the Red Cross noted. Local residents wishing to make applications for assist ance are advise to call at tne Red Cross office at 60 Haw thorne ave. Information given is confidential and is used solely to determine what ap propriate assistance should be given. Statements as to own ership of property, income, liabilities, losses and other factors involved will be care fully verified. Finding' will he considered by a trained Rod Cross disaster representa tive working with a local ad visory committee to approve type of assistance to be given. Additional information may be obtained by telephoning 772-4405. fc tut. Efficient Servic , 7 amp ir 4 m s mtp Francisco, Los Angeles and Othtr California Points 1 Jtcfc f iti,e,aM W 773-7761 Iktil ELECT RALPH A. JAMES Democratic Candidate for COUNTY JUDGE Efficient Responsible Mnssf& Heard" Migersfy Rul Impartial P4, PeJ. Adv. fey James er County Judge Comm., Geo. Loft in, chmn., Central Point, Cre. 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If your kind of trans p,oPi, dtund on portation isn't here, it must run on hay.. agy mms sMWfti iti 1 1 irrinr firti" wnssm -JrHimmi J aw 1 I llllS MH IH l'llSS M llll II I ll '63 CHEVY II NOVA 400 STATION WAGON Here's a wagon that's sparing on operating expenses but not on space. '63 C0RVAIR MONZA CONVERTIBLE It has new self- adjusting brakes. Its rear-engine driving magic was untouched. NEW CORVETTE STING RAY SPORT COUPE So dramatically different and new you need a road to get a full reading. it's Chevy Showtime '63 i See 4 entirely different kinds of cars st your Chevrolet dealer's Showroom. 230 EAST MAIN STREET Phone 773-9081 OPEN TONIGHT UNTIL 11 P.M. COURTESY CHEVROLET 9TH & BARTLETT t MEDFORD PHONE 772-6115
